----- Original Message ----- From: "joseph speigle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [Templates] Newbie TT2 MVC question ( layout/handler problem)
>> If I could take a separate issue, maybe it would be better to not have subcategories and categores differently. A subcategory is a category without a parent. Make a second table aside from your category table with two columns, parent_id and child_id. Whenever you present the "stuff" for a category (the "lists") if there is no parent (as per the second table) then present the list -- otherwise, keep breaking down the lists and presenting the subcategories, which are really 'categories' with parents. This follows because a category and a subcategory hold the same information, no? Also it solves the problem of what to do when you have a category which has no subcategories? (user won't have to navigate an extra page to see the "lists"). And, it really simplifies the code, you have no double names like cat.pl and subcat.pl. But, it does require coding for the second "relationship" table, unless you are programming server-side SQL and return cursors. The layout matches their existing sites/database - that is not a problem here. The problem is the seperation of presentation/logic/db layers so that a design house can produce html layouts. _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
